Strike

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Strike may refer to:

People

  • Strike (surname)
  • Hobart Huson, author of several drug related books

Physical confrontation or removal

  • Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
  • Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position
  • Bird strike, collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft
  • Bridge strike, collision of an over-height vehicle to a bridge.
  • Military strike, limited attack on a specified target
  • Striking the colors, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender
  • Strikethrough, typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through the center of them
  • Utility strike, during an excavation accidentally hitting or damaging buried pipes or wires belonging to a public utility or other such services
  • YouTube copyright strike, a copyright policing practice used by YouTube

Refusal to work or perform

  • Capital strike, refusal to invest in an economy
  • Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
  • Rent strike, when a group of tenants en masse agrees to refuse to pay rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord
  • Sex strike, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute
  • Strike action, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
  • Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class

Science and technology

  • Strike (unit), an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels
  • Electric strike, access control device used for doors
  • Lightning strike, electrical discharges caused by lightning
  • Strike and dip, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
  • "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation
  • Striking clock, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong

Sport

  • Strike (bowling), a term used in bowling
  • Strike, a term used in association football (soccer) to mean an accurate, driven shot kicked using the laces of the boot
  • "On strike", a term used to refer to the striker in cricket
  • Strike zone, a term used in baseball

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Strike (1912 film), a lost Australian film
  • Strike (1925 film), a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
  • Strike! (1998 film), a Canadian-American comedy film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan
  • Strike (2006 film), a Polish-language film directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  • Strike (2018 film), a stop-motion animated film directed by Trevor Hardy

Music

  • Strike (band), British dance band formed in 1994
  • Strike (percussion group), New Zealand group formed in 1993
  • "Strike (Holster)" a 2023 song by American rapper Lil Yachty
  • Strikes (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979

Television

  • Strike (TV series), a BBC series based on the Cormoran Strike detective book series
  • "The Strike" (Seinfeld), 166th episode of the NBC sitcom; it aired in December 1997
  • "The Strike", 1988 episode of The Comic Strip Presents
  • The Strike, an 1989 episode of the American children's comedy science fiction sitcom Small Wonder

Video games

  • Strike (video game series), video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts
  • Strikes, cooperative multiplayer modes in the video game Destiny, similar to a military strike

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Strike, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Scyther
  • S.T.R.I.K.E., fictional counter-terrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Strike Entertainment, film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios
  • Kamen Rider Strike, a Kamen Rider Dragon Knight character

Other uses

  • <strike>, the HTML tag
  • Strike price, fixed price at which the owner of an option can purchase, in the case of a call, or sell, in the case of a put, the underlying security or commodity

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Strike
  • Gold Strike (disambiguation)
  • Shrike (disambiguation)
  • Strike Force (disambiguation)
  • Striker (disambiguation)
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